News Archives - The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture

News5.24.2023

Professor Frank Melendez Wins Italian Fellowship

Spitzer School architecture Professor Frank Melendez wins Italian Fellowship

Associate Professor Frank Melendez is the recipient of an international fellowship from the Italian organization Nature, Art & Habitat Residency (NAHR). He is one of seven fellows who have been awarded the one-month summer residency in the Taleggio Valley, a rural region in the Italian Alps. The theme for the 2023 Fellowship is “AIR.” Fellows will

News5.24.2023

M Arch Studio-Designed Pavilion Moves Closer to Realization in Brownsville

The Powell Street Garden in Brownsville, Brooklyn, has long sought an indoor space for gathering and education. This is the project Professor Ali C. Höcek of ACHA brought to the second-year Master of Architecture studio in spring 2018, tapping into the students’ creativity, drive, and community mindedness. During the semester, students worked with a cadre

Alumni5.15.2023

Commencement 2022, Spitzer School of Architecture. Photograph courtesy of Christian Volkmann.

Alum Deborah Berke and Dean Marta Gutman Discuss Architectural Education

In “Architectural Education for the Future: A Conversation with Deborah Berke and Marta Gutman,” Platform editor Kishwar Rizvi speaks with Deans Deborah Berke MUP ’84 (Yale School of Architecture) and Marta Gutman (Spitzer School of Architecture) about new directions in architectural education today. Recognizing the challenges facing students and teachers alike in a post-pandemic world,

News5.9.2023

Prof. Aydogan Awarded Cycle 54 PSC-CUNY Research Award

We are pleased to announce that Associate Professor Ahu Aydogan is a recipient of a Cycle 54 PSC-CUNY Research Award for $6,000.00 to begin July 1st, 2023. The title of Prof. Aydogan’s research proposal is “Experimentation of Plant-Based Filter Prototype for Removing Indoor Air Pollutants.” This award will help Prof. Aydogan to purchase the equipment

News5.4.2023

2023 Lewis Mumford Lecture: “Pressing Change in the Increasing Inflexible City,” Featuring Emily Badger

This year’s Lewis Mumford Lecture was held on Thursday, April 27, 2023, at 6 pm. Emily Badger is a staff writer with The New York Times, covering cities and urban policy. She is particularly interested in housing, transportation, and inequality — and how they’re all connected. Prior to joining the Times in 2016, she wrote

News5.1.2023

Shawn Rickenbacker and Héctor Tarrido-Picart’s Research Project Profiled in The RICC

Associate Professor and Director of the J. Max Bond Center For Urban Futures Shawn Rickenbacker and Adjunct Lecturer Héctor Tarrido-Picart’s research project was recently profiled in The RICC, the Research and Innovation at CCNY Ezine. The Harlem Small Business Initiative is an interdisciplinary research project from CCNY that tries to understand and communicate the factors